Nursing and Healthcare Workforce Summit.

Statewide Healthcare Workforce Summit

2024 Statewide Nursing and Healthcare Workforce Summit

The nursing workforce crisis in Connecticut is a complex one, and one which requires the active support and participation of all organizations involved in the business of providing quality healthcare to our Connecticut residents. 

This year's Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce, Inc. (CCNW) Nursing & Healthcare Workforce Summit will focus on highlighting critical areas for attention and innovative andproven efforts that can be scaled statewide to foster a sustainable nursing workforce.

HELD 
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
8:15 AM - 12:30 PM
AQUA TURF CLUB, Plantsville, CT

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PLUS, NEW 2023 nursing education and workforce supply data will be highlighted:

• Nursing Education data- Statistics on ALL Connecticut RN and LPN Pre-licensure Programs sharing: the education pipeline of prospective students, student seat capacity, student attrition and graduation rates, and demographic data of our full-time and part-time nurse faculty.

• Nursing Supply data- Statistics on ALL Connecticut licensed RNs and LPNs including: the percentage of nurses actively working in bedside care roles, age, ethnicity, primary and secondary employment settings, and retirement projections of the existing workforce.

• Findings can inform strategic decisions moving forward within the state, as well as, be the catalyst to engage education and practice institutions to partner in new innovative ways to not only address Connecticut’s current nursing shortage, but systematically impact the long-term imbalance of nurses which seems to materialize every 10 years within Connecticut, and exacerbated by COVID-19 which catapulted the issue of nursing workforce to the tipping point!

​Audience:

• State of Connecticut Agencies & Departments that hire healthcare workers
• State Healthcare Trade Associations
• Workforce Investment Boards
• Colleges and Universities that offer healthcare education
• Practice Settings- Acute, Long-Term, Homecare, FQHCs, Primary Care
• Legislators and Policy Makers

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Statewide Healthcare Workforce Summit 
​​Agenda

8:15 am - 8:45 am
Registration & Hot Breakfast Buffet
 
8:45 am - 9:00 am
Welcome, Sherylyn Watson, CCNW Board Chair
 
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Panel Session: Systemic Challenges Facing Connecticut's Healthcare Employers

• Matthew Barrett, President & CEO, Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities and Connecticut Center for Assisted Living
• Paul Kidwell, Senior Vice President, Policy, The Connecticut Hospital Association
• Mag Morelli, President, LeadingAge Connecticut
• Tracy Wodatch, President & CEO, Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home 

9:40 am - 9:55 am
Coffee Break
 
9:55 am - 10:20 am
Update on CT's Nursing Education & Supply Data to Inform Statewide Workforce Development Planning

• Marcia Proto, Executive Director, The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce, Inc.

 10:20 am - 10:50 am
Panel Session: Challenges Facing Connecticut's Insurance Employers

• Moderator:  Karen Eckert, Vice President, Clinical Operations, ConnectiCare
• Speaker:  Julia Bietsch, Chief Nursing Officer, CVS Health & Senior Vice President, Clinical Services, Aetna
• Speaker:  Randee Lee Hickey, Director of Clinical Operations, ConnectiCare

10:50 am - 11:20 am
New Grads Transition to Practice:  Foundations to Elevating Practice Excellence and a Sustainable Workforce 

• Mary Ellen Kosturko, Executive Vice President and System Chief Nursing Officer, Hartford HealthCare
• Warly Remegio, Vice President, Nursing Professional Development and Practice Excellence, Hartford HealthCare

 
11:20 am - 11:35 am
CCNW Awards Ceremony
 
11:35 am - 12:05 pm
Panel Session: Strategies to Promote and Empower the Bedside Nurse

• Audrey Beauvais, Associate Dean & Professor, Fairfield University Egan School of Nursing & Health Studies
• Annette Maruca, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Undergraduate Studies, UCONN School of Nursing
• Edith Ouellet, Executive Director & Chair of Nursing Programs, University of Hartford
• Lisa Rebeschi, Senior Associate Dean & Professor, Quinnipiac University School of Nursing
• Jo Ritchie, Senior Director of Nursing Professional Development, Hartford HealthCare

 
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm
Engage Connecticut's Healthcare Leadership to Define "Call to Action"

• Marcia Proto, Executive Director, The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce, Inc.

SPEAKERS

Matthew Barrett, JD, MPA

President and CEO
Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities & Connecticut Center for Assisted Living

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Audrey Beauvais DNP, MSN, MBA, RN

Associate Dean and Professor, Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies at Fairfield University​

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Julia Bietsch, RN, BSN, MAS

Chief Nursing Officer, CVS Health & Senior Vice President, Clinical Services, Aetna

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Karen Eckert, RN, M.B.A.

Vice President of Clinical Operations
ConnectiCare

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Randee Lee Hickey

Director, Clinical Operations
ConnectiCare

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Paul Kidwell

Senior Vice President, Policy, The Connecticut Hospital Association

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MaryEllen (Mel) Kosturko, DNP, MAHSM, R.N., CENP

Executive Vice President and System Chief Nursing Officer, Hartford HealthCare

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Mag Morelli

President, LeadingAge Connecticut

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Annette Maruca, PhD, RN, PMH-BC, CNE, CCHP

Annette Maruca, PhD, RN, PMH-BC, CNE, CCHP
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Undergraduate Studies and Professor, UCONN School of Nursing

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Edith Ouellet EdD, RN, CNE

Executive Director and Chair of the Nursing Programs, College of Education, Nursing & Health Professions at the University of Hartford

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Marcia Proto, M.Ed, CAS

Executive Director, The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce, Inc.

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Lisa Rebeschi, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE

Senior Associate Dean and Professor, Quinnipiac University School of Nursing

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WARLY REMEGIO, DNP. RN, NEA-BC, NDP-BC, FNYAM

Vice President, Nursing Professional Development & Practice Excellence, Hartford HealthCare

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Jo Ritchie DNP, RN, NEA-BC, NPD-BC, CNL

Senior Director of Nursing Professional Development, Hartford HealthCare

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Sherylyn Watson, Ph.D, MSN, RN, CNE

Director of Nursing & Associate Dean, New York-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences

Tracy Wodatch, BSN, RN

President and CEO
CT Association for Healthcare at Home​

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Sponsor Investment Levels

Sponsorship closes on March 20th

Summit Premiere Sponsor
​$10,000

Amount of money spent to train (1) novice nurse for a month who will ultimately leave within the year due to overwork, abuse, and lack of recognition

• LOGO on ALL public relations materials promoting the Summit for four months with link to highlight your organization’s services, products, and programming
• Promotional Banners on ALL (3) CCNW Websites for one year
• Unlimited FREE Postings on the CCNW Job Bank
• Signage throughout the facility the day of the event
• One table of (10)- Individual Registrations to the Summit

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Nurse Leader Sponsor
​$7,500

Amount of money spent to hire ONE travel nurse for 2 weeks

• LOGO on ALL public relations materials promoting the Summit for four months with link to highlight your organization’s services, products, and programming
• Promotional Banner on TWO of the CCNW Websites for one year
• Unlimited FREE Postings on the CCNW Job Bank
• Signage throughout the facility the day of the event
• (5) Individual Registrations to the Summit

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Nurse Faculty Sponsor
$3,500

Amount of money that an MSN Nurse Faculty “loses” each month due to her/his career choice to teach rather that practice

• LOGO on ALL public relations materials promoting the Summit for four months with link to highlight your organization’s services, products, and programming
• Promotional Banner on ONE the CCNW Website for one year
• Signage throughout the facility the day of the event.
• (2) Individual Registrations to the Summit

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Nurse Sponsor
​$1,500

Amount of money needed each day to expand simulation-based education to support CT’s existing nursing schools and programs to meet tomorrow’s workforce demands

• LOGO on ALL public relations materials promoting the Summit for four months with link to highlight your organization’s services, products, and programming
• Signage throughout the facility the day of the event.

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